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- "Ты пьёшь чай с молоком?"
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Not necessarily. "You drink tea with milk?" could be asked after you've seen someone add milk to their tea and you want confirmation that this is how they drink their tea.
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Exactly. This is totally correct in English, but it is rather inconsistent for Duolingo to ask for this here when this question structure is rejected in every other lesson.
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That may be so but in every other lesson they have marked answers wrong for not including "do" at the beginning of this question being asked. It's a matter of consistency, or lack thereof, that becomes frustrating for those of us trying to learn.
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But I think for the beginning it is hart. And I think you neet the Emphasis of this person to check if there is a answer or a question
When it's "with", the end of the world changes. Milk - молоко. With milk - с молоком.
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The pronunciation of 'чай' confuses me here. It sounds like 'Che' . Is it really pronounced like this?
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Yes, it's very wrong. I'd advise you to go to Forvo.com to hear the correct pronunciation of чай (it should be "chai", NOT "che"). I've reported it already but don't expect a quick correction anytime soon. It's no fault of the developers, though. It's just that these things take a long time to correct.
I am a native Russian speaker. it's sounds well (18.09.16). Sometimes words sound a little different in context.
There is a lot of variation in how vowels are pronounced depending on the word in Russian. Take the word Время. It is transliterated as vremya but it is typically pronounced as vremye. I think it is one of the hardest aspects of Russian. But I do agree with you that TTS is off at times: take the word Свитер it pronounces it as sviter not as svityr.
Is the word 'с' pronounced as 'es' or does it tag onto the next word, making it sound like "смолоком"? I wonder the same thing with the word 'в'. Sometimes it sounds like 've' while other times it sounds like it just makes the next word start with a 'v' sound, no extra vowel.
Prepositions В and С sound attached to the next word. I can't remember cases when it's not so.
The translation 'you drink..' is wrong: the interrogative form in English must be 'do you drink..'
You can exclude the "do" if expressing incredulity. I don't know of that is less grammatically correct though.
@forstore - Many/most European languages do not use supporting verbs like "is" or "do" in the present tense, and some (like Russian) do not use helping verbs (like "was", "had", "did") in the past tense. The entire thought is contained in the verb itself.
Therefore, the English "Do you drink tea?", "Are you drinking tea?", "Have you been drinking tea?" and "You drink tea?" are all expressed in Russian as "Ты пьешь чай?"
It is more natural for me to say: Do you drink tea with the milk? I cannot see that "You drink tea with milk" is a question?
"You drink tea with milk?" can either be seeking confirmation of a memory or known preference, perhaps with the expectation that the drinker will want some or it can represent surprise that someone drinks their tea with milk (though it is more rhetorical in this use).
You're right that the form with "do you" is probably better for most uses.
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This has already been discussed here. Yes, you certainly can, in fact it's strange that there isn't a "do" in the current translation.
You can take a statement and rising intonation up and it automatically becomes an informal question))
Can this be translated as "Do you take tea with milk?" or even "Do you take milk with your tea?"
